Ark UK Programmes

Registered charity 1137932 · since 2010arkcurriculumplus.org.uk·International·Updated 31 October 2026

At a glance

£439k

Annual giving, year to 31 August 2025

From filed accounts

A small fraction of the prior year (£10.3M in year to 31 August 2024).

Key takeaways

Ark UK Programmes states its principal objective as advancing public education anywhere in the world, so your work needs a clear educational purpose to fit.
The annual report gives one total of £439,000 awarded, which may include grants to individuals, and no grant range is stated, so keep any request modest and confirm the scale with the funder before you ask for a figure.
The annual report publishes no application process, so start with a short enquiry through the contact it shows rather than a formal application, and expect the approach to depend on getting to know the funder.
Much of its work is delivered through its own Ark programmes, so an approach asking it to fund an outside project may be a weak match, and it is worth checking first whether it makes grants to outside organisations at all.

Overview

Ark UK Programmes is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1137932).

Ark UK Programmes is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, whose principal objective is to advance public education anywhere in the world. It acts as a seed-bed for creating and testing new Ark programmes and for supporting other ventures to launch and scale, and it provides a home for Ark Ventures, including Ark Start and Ark Curriculum Plus. The annual report gives £439,000 awarded in total, and the parent organisation's accounts describe its UK educational work as principally extended-school programmes at Ark Schools.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation’s principal objective is to advance public education anywhere in the world, at the directors’ discretion. It describes itself as a seed-bed for creating and testing new Ark programmes and supporting other ventures to launch and scale. Its report says it provides a home for Ark Ventures, including Ark Start and Ark Curriculum Plus. The parent organisation’s accounts describe the foundation’s UK educational work as principally involving extended-school programmes at Ark Schools. The material presents an approach based on developing and delivering educational programmes.

Themes

Education

Geographic Focus

The World.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

International

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Ark UK Programmes.

ArkNo public processGave £2.2M Buffini Chao FoundationInvitation onlyGave £713k The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks FoundationInvitation onlyGave £638k The London Women's Clinic FoundationNo public processGave £177k The Lakshmi N Mittal Family FoundationInvitation onlyGave £3.5M The Garrard Family FoundationRollingGave £281k The Exilarch's FoundationNo public processGave £5.1M Gumball 3000 FoundationInvitation only The Rumi FoundationInvitation onlyGave £684k Cunningham FoundationNo public processGave £300k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 August 2021	£5,278,000	£5,859,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 August 2021
year to 31 August 2022	£5,734,000	£5,191,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 August 2022
year to 31 August 2023	£18,387,000	£7,829,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 August 2023
year to 31 August 2024	£6,240,000	£17,722,000	£10,266,000	Accounts for year to 31 August 2024
year to 31 August 2025	£7,254,000	£7,426,000	£439,000	Accounts for year to 31 August 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2024

£10.3M grants

YE 2025

£439k awarded

In 1 of the 2 years shown, grants paid exceeded income.

Grants paid, year to 31 August 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
Grants paid, year to 31 August 2025: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.